Henry W. Edwards

Henry Waggaman Edwards (October 1779-22 July 1847) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Connecticut's at-large district (DR) from 4 March 1819 to 8 October 1823 (succeeding Sylvester Gilbert and preceding Noyes Barber), a US Senator from 8 October 1823 to 4 March 1827 (succeeding Elijah Boardman and preceding Samuel A. Foot), and Governor of Connecticut from 1 May 1833 to 7 May 1834 (succeeding John S. Peters and preceding Foot) and from 6 May 1835 to 2 May 1838 (succeeding Foot and preceding William W. Ellsworth).

Biography
Henry Waggaman Edwards was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1779, and he became a lawyer and an active participant in Democratic-Republican politics. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1819 to 1823, in the US Senate from 1823 to 1827, and as Governor from 1833 to 1834 and from 1835 to 1838. During his tenure as governor, he enacted a discriminatory education law, expanded the railroad, and funded a geological survey. He was not renominated in 1838, and he died in 1847.